We are pleased to announce the following OpenMP training events are being offered to both in-person and webcast participants April 12th and 13th, 2018. The courses include hands-on exercises on TACC systems. Local participants are strongly encouraged to attend in person. Instructors will be available after class to consult on individual projects with in person participants.

4/12/18 9am-12:30pm CT - Introduction to OpenMP
This course will introduce participants to the OpenMP threading model, and describe the basic constructs necessary to parallelize loops on multi-core architectures. Topics include the fork/join threading model, using OpenMP directives, and loop parallelization. The fundamentals of hybrid computing (MPI & OpenMP) will be explained and illustrated.

4/13/18 9am-12:30pm CT - Advanced OpenMP
This course will provide an introduction to OpenMP optimization techniques for multi-core and vectorized architectures. Topics will include OpenMP SIMD directives, configuring OpenMP thread affinity, tasking, and task dependences.

To register and for more information please visit: https://learn.tacc.utexas.edu/

If you have any questions please contact me at jasona@tacc.utexas.edu

Access to all TACC systems will be unavailable from 9:00 AM CDT  until 2:00 PM CDT on March 11, 2018 to allow for upgrades to the TACC core network hardware. Jobs will continue to run, but users will have no access to TACC services and systems until the upgrade is complete.

Access to all TACC systems will be unavailable from 9:00 AM CDT  until 2:00 PM CDT on March 11, 2018 to allow for upgrades to the TACC core network hardware. Jobs will continue to run, but users will have no access to TACC services and systems until the upgrade is complete.

TACC personnel will observe the University of Texas at Austin winter break from 5 p.m. (CST) on Thursday, 21 December 2017, and will resume normal business hours on Tuesday, 2 January 2018. A staff member will be on site to monitor the status of all TACC resources. TACC support staff will monitor the consulting system throughout the break and address critical system issues. The staff will address other issues beginning Tuesday, 2 January 2018.

December 14th, 2017 9am-1pm CT
Texas Advanced Computing Center
ACB 1.104
J.J. Pickle Research Campus
10100 Burnet Rd. Austin, TX 78758

OpenMP is one of the most popular paradigms to exploit the now ubiquitous manycore and multi-core processors. In this beginner-level training session, we will provide an overview of the basic concepts of OpenMP. We will introduce the trainees to the Interactive Parallelization Tool (IPT) that is designed for parallelizing serial C/C++ programs semi-automatically. The participants in the training session will be introduced to OpenMP and will learn to use IPT for parallelizing their C/C++ applications.

Prerequisites: Experience working in a Linux environment, and familiarity with C/C++/Fortran or any other programming language.

We are offering the training to both in-person and webcast participants. Local participants are strongly encouraged to attend in person.

To attend the training in person, please contact me via email at jasona@tacc.utexas.edu.

To attend via webcast, please enroll for the training at:
https://learn.tacc.utexas.edu/mod/chat/view.php?id=30

You will need to sign in with your TACC User Portal account and password to enroll.

At 08:00 on Tuesday, November 21st, the Ranch environment will be brought down for normal system maintenance. Due to the 1.3 billion files currently in Ranch, this maintenance activity should take between 24 and 36 hours. We expect to bring Ranch back into production no sooner than 20:00 Wednesday, November 22nd.

Users should take note that it is possible that this downtime could extend overnight into the Thanksgiving holiday. Appropriate notice will be given should this maintenance event run longer than its expected 36 hours.